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...Mexico. Thanks to the peso's plummet, American-made goods could now be as much as 50% more expensive for Mexican consumers. Products from herbal shampoos to frozen desserts sold south of the border will be hard hit. "The peso has been devalued," says Texas A&M trade specialist James Giermanski, "to the point where it really wipes out your expected tariff advantage...
First he ordered a movie: a Sylvester Stallone vehicle called the The Specialist (cost: $2.95). Then, pressing the "fast-forward" button on his remote, he zipped ahead to what he said was his favorite scene -- Sharon Stone bending down to place flowers on the grave of the family she had lost to a mob bombing. He pressed "pause" and, like a gadget-crazed kid, began putting his multimillion-dollar toy through its paces. With The Specialist still on hold, he ordered a second movie, The Client, fast-forwarded to another favorite scene -- where Susan Sarandon is deciding whether...
Finally he returned to his movies to see whether the system remembered where he had left off. He selected The Specialist, and sure enough, there was Sharon Stone, still bending over that grave with the flowers in her hand. The room burst into applause...
...then moved to the American Museum of Natural History in New York as a bird specialist, where he worked for two years to attain the permanent position of assistant curator...
McSweeney said he was the favorite of most Walsh voters. The 31-year-old employee-benefits specialist has failed twice in getting the courts to declare him the winner or to order a recounting of all the ballots from the election, not just Walsh...